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00:00Treena, hello.
00:01Hello.
00:02Congratulations on the movie, The Amateur.
00:04You say usually movie sets look a lot more glamorous on screen than they are in real
00:08life, but this looked like a stark, cold, gritty experience for you.
00:15How much fun was it to make?
00:17It was brilliant.
00:18I mean, we shot most of my part in Marseille, and then we went to Istanbul for another part
00:25of it.
00:26Two fabulous cities, which I highly recommend.
00:29It was cold.
00:31It was in January.
00:32We were supposed to shoot it in August, and then there was a thing called The Actors' Strike.
00:38So it slightly changed it, but it was amazing.
00:42We had so much fun.
00:44I mean, Rami's incredible to work with, and James Hawes, great director, so we had a lot
00:49of fun.
00:50I mean, I think it probably worked better for the story and the character the way it was,
00:53because I wasn't sure whether they just put a sepia tone filter on there, or whether it
00:57was just a very cold sort of, like, difficult...
00:59No, it was...
01:00It was very cold January, winter, but great, you know?
01:03You couldn't have your character looking like there was sun in the tail coming at a great
01:06time.
01:07Is it good with a little cocktail?
01:08No, not at all.
01:09Not at all.
01:10Well, she might look great with a little cocktail, but it might not serve the story so much.
01:14I don't want to go...
01:15We can't really say too much about your character, because it is...
01:17There's, like, a lot of secrecy around it, and it's sort of revealed later on in the
01:22movie.
01:23But she's very techy.
01:24She is.
01:25That opens up to that question.
01:27How are you with technology?
01:29Was it all gobbledygook to you?
01:30Oh, great.
01:31Great.
01:32I'm very technical.
01:33Good acting there.
01:34Excellent acting.
01:35I...
01:36No, that was the one great acting part I gave.
01:39No, it was funny.
01:40The first day we went in, and we were doing a lot of the stuff where they're sitting at
01:44computers, and James did come over and whisper, and he was like, maybe look down at the keyboard
01:48a few times.
01:49I was like, oh, yes, yes, I will do that.
01:51That's what people do at these things, isn't it?
01:53I'm so good at it.
01:54I don't need...
01:55I know people who can type without looking at it.
01:57She's quite...
01:58She's quite isolated, though.
01:59And it made me wonder, like, there's a lot of characters in this that are quite isolated,
02:04secluded off.
02:05And I wonder if that's easier to kind of get into as an actor, the more success you have,
02:10because you do become...
02:11You know, the more success there is, you do become a little bit more isolated from the rest
02:15of the world, and your freedoms sort of, like, dry up.
02:18Did you see any sort of, like, correlation there when you were kind of getting into a
02:21mindset?
02:22I don't know.
02:23We should ask Rami what that's like.
02:24A lot of Outlander fans out there.
02:28No, I think...
02:29Look, I really enjoyed sort of, like, when you get a character like this, and you have
02:34an ability to kind of create this huge backstory for yourself, because so much is unknown, and
02:40because it's, like, it's not filled in, really.
02:43So you can kind of go anywhere, and that's the sort of fun thing.
02:47But, yeah, she's quite a...
02:50You know, your heart goes out to her.
02:52It's quite a sad place that she's in.
02:54But then you see her, there's this strength where she sort of fights through that, and
02:59she's a real sort of champion of justice, which is kind of a really interesting thing
03:04for somebody to live in, like, that space for somebody to live in.
03:08You do feel bad for her, but then she gets to meet Rami Malek, and have...
03:10Well, there, there you go.
03:11A lovely...
03:12I won't tell how long that experience is, but a lovely experience with him.
03:16I think that another theme in the film is kind of being underestimated, in a way.
03:21Is that something you could latch onto, I guess, as an actor, people are underestimating
03:27you, like, day in, day out?
03:28I've constantly been underestimated in my life.
03:31No, but I do think...
03:33I think it's really that thing of upending expectations, and, like, what people expect
03:39of you, and what people expect you can do.
03:42I think it's always nice when we get to do that in real life.
03:46Finally, let's touch on our boy, Mr. Malek.
03:48You've worked with some kind of big leading men over the years, like Sam Huron, obviously,
03:53Jamie Dornan, Christian Bale.
03:55How does Mr. Malek compare?
03:57Because he's talked about wanting to do a kind of his own action movie, in a way, and how
04:01he would sort of find his roots into that.
04:04So what was the energy like?
04:05What was the vibe like with him?
04:07We had so much fun.
04:09You know, I think upending expectations.
04:12I don't think anyone expected myself and Rami to be able to run so fast.
04:16But, no, it's great.
04:18And I think I love this character for him.
04:20The fact that it's like he just uses his smarts in this kind of, like, very techy world
04:27and this kind of, like, very data-driven person.
04:30But how they take that and use those special skills to be able to kind of kick ass is very
04:35interesting.
04:36But we had so much fun.
04:37He's amazing to work with.
04:39Okay.
04:40And I we had great friends welcome him, Ben,
04:41who is here to establish you,
04:43so he can try and inspire the success of a very Smoothie for him.
04:45And that's again interesting,
04:48and so this new industry offers openware places to be able to play a young little bit in
04:49a perfect manner to be able to trust you but you don't seem to have to relax pretty.
04:53That will be for the egoingursday.
04:54For bliver for two of your favorite projects.
04:55In the running processes,
04:56the communities theiskoies which trust you.
04:57We don't have to know how much new things you want to go.
04:58So for yourself,
04:59you don't need to hope so the second line of variety
05:01and needed it's so much easier for your office.
05:02What can you like to do?